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so her entire body1 is awrah during prayer except for her face.
2—The less stringent category: this is the awrah of a boy aged seven to ten, and it2 consists of the two private parts.
3—The intermediate category: this is the awrah of everyone else, extending from the navel to the knee3.
Allah Most High says: “O Children of Adam! Dress properly whenever you are at worship.” [al-Aʿrāf: 31]
65—Another of its conditions is facing the qiblah.
Allah Most High says: “And from wherever you set out, turn your face toward the Sacred Mosque.” [al-Baqarah: 149, 150]
66—If one is unable to face it because of illness or otherwise, that requirement is waived, just as
(1) In “B” and “T”: “then indeed her entire [body].”
(2) In “B”: *fa-innahu* (“then it [masculine] is”); and in “T”: *fa-innahā* (“then it [feminine] is”).
(3) The Shaykh stated in *Al-Mukhtārāt al-Jaliyya*, p. 29: The correct view is that a man’s covering of both shoulders, or one of them, during prayer serves to complete and perfect the prayer but is not a condition of its validity. The hadith of Abū Hurayra, “A man must not pray in a single garment with none of it over his shoulder,” is explained by the hadith of Jābir: “If the garment is ample, wrap yourself in it; if it is narrow, wrap it around your waist, or cross its ends.” This is also because the shoulder is not *awrah*; covering it during prayer therefore serves to perfect the prayer. This is the view of the majority of scholars.
فَجَمِيعُ١ بَدَنِهَا عَوْرَةٌ فِي اَلصَّلَاةِ إِلَّا وَجْهَهَا.
٢- ومخففة: وهي عَوْرَةُ اِبْنِ سَبْعِ سِنِينَ إِلَى عَشْرٍ، وَهِيَ٢ اَلْفَرْجَانِ.
٣- وَمُتَوَسِّطَةٌ: وَهِيَ عَوْرَةُ مِنْ عَدَاهُمْ، مِنْ السُّرَّة إلى الركبة٣.
قَالَ تَعَالَى: ﴿يَا بَنِي آدَمَ خُذُوا زِينَتَكُمْ عِنْدَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ﴾ [اَلْأَعْرَافِ: ٣١] .
٦٥- وَمِنْهَا: اِسْتِقْبَالُ اَلْقِبْلَةِ:
قَالَ تَعَالَى: ﴿وَمِنْ حَيْثُ خَرَجْتَ فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ﴾ [اَلْبَقَرَةِ: ١٤٩، ١٥٠] .
٦٦- فَإِنْ عَجَزَ عَنْ استقبالها، لمرض أو غيره سقط، كما
١ في "ب، ط": "فإن جميع".
٢ في "ب": "فإنه"، وفي "ط": "فإنها".
٣ قال الشيخ في "المختارات الجلية، ص: ٢٩": الصحيح أن ستر المنكبين أو أحدهما في الصلاة للرجل، من باب تكميلها وتمامها، وأنه ليس بشرط، وحديث أبي هريرة: "لا يصلي الرجل في الثوب الواحد ليس على عاتقه منه شيء" يفسره حديث جابر: "إن كان الثوب واسعا فالْتَحف به، وإن كان ضيقا فاتَّزر به، أو فخالف بين طرفيه"؛ ولأن المنكب ليس بعورة، فستره في الصلاة من باب تكميله، كما هو قول جمهور العلماء.